NEW! Bus Tour | Bronzeville Murals

Join author and historian Bernard Turner on this bus tour of murals on the South Side of Chicago, particularly in Bronzeville. Learn about the history of the mural movement that began in the 1960s with the Wall of Respect, as well as its impact on the political landscape of Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement.

The Great Migration, a long-term movement of African Americans from the South to the urban North, transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. Chicago attracted slightly more than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South during these decades. Before this migration, African Americans constituted 2 percent of Chicago’s population; by 1970, they were 33 percent. What had been in the 19th century a largely southern and rural African American culture became a culture deeply infused with urban sensibility in the 20th century. And what had been a marginalized population in Chicago emerged by the mid-20th century as a powerful force in the city’s political, economic, and cultural life.

$55, $45 members

Tour runs 3–4 hours. This tour begins and ends at the Chicago History Museum.

Tour also includes free admission to the Chicago History Museum, good for one week from tour date.

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